In Home Child Day Care.

Cherokeekid88

Cherokeekid88

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Anyone have any experience with this? Our original plan after our daughter was born was to have both our parents take care of her for 6 months or so and then put her in day care. Well, plans might just have to change a bit and need to go into daycare after my wife's maternity leave. There is a lady in my neighborhood who is licensed and is trained in early childhood education and CPR. We would like to put her in a traditional daycare, but honestly the cost would put a pretty big strain on us. In-home daycare seems to be a bit more affordable (in our case around $250 a month less than traditional daycare)

Anyone currently or had their child enrolled in in-home daycare?

What do you like/dislike?

The great thing, is the lady lives in our neighborhood and can easily get references.
 
If you can find an in home day care that gives you a good feeling and has good references I'd go with them. I've done both with my kids and the lady down the street was a much better experience for me and the kids. One of my wife's friends works for day care facilities. The background checks are laughable at best if they have one. The center might have licenses and qualifications but there employes likely do not. $7.50 an hour gets you a horrible cheese burger. And that's what most of the dat care centers pay the help.
 
peewee said:
If you can find an in home day care that gives you a good feeling and has good references I'd go with them. I've done both with my kids and the lady down the street was a much better experience for me and the kids. One of my wife's friends works for day care facilities. The background checks are laughable at best if they have one. The center might have licenses and qualifications but there employes likely do not. $7.50 an hour gets you a horrible cheese burger. And that's what most of the dat care centers pay the help.
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Good to know. The place that we wanted to send her is really great, but that comes with a hefty price tag that we just can't swing right now. We are hopefully going to meet with this lady this week or next and if all goes well, get the ball rolling.
 
My kids were home-care kept.

Friend of a friend kinda deal. We planned to enroll them in Centenary UMC here in Winston once we found out we were having our first...then went over thee to find there was a 5 yr waiting list o_O

We interviewed this friend of a friend as well as past parents. Felt real good about them. The husband retired from his job shortly after my first born went to them. They turned out to be a 3rd set of grandparents to my kids. I couldn't have asked for a better experience.
 
If daycare is a financial strain, have you considered your wife staying at home? I was originally against my wife staying at home, but eventually we did that and it was the best decision we’ve ever made for our family.
 
VortecJeep said:
If daycare is a financial strain, have you considered your wife staying at home? I was originally against my wife staying at home, but eventually we did that and it was the best decision we’ve ever made for our family.
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Thought about it, but would cut our income in half.
We have been really working on saving saving and more saving. Hopefully going to be able to pay Dr bills off in cash and putting a bit back every paycheck and putting in our daycare fund, so that hopefully we can have a decent head start when she starts in August.
 
What about half-day centers? If that schedule can work, typically they are much cheaper than full-day.


As said, I would check it out during hours they are open, and talk to some past parents about experiences. Ask around to people you know and trust about different places.
 
The good thing is that my wife only works Mon - Thurs, so we only need 4 days a week daycare.
Half day might could work but then we would have to make sure someone could either take her or pick her up, and some days that might be a nightmare...
 
Home daycare may be different but I’ve found daycare costs to be the same whether it’s 5 days or 3 days or 4 days because the daycares only have a certain capacity and you pay for that spot even if you don’t go. And, even on weeks you go on vacation and don’t even go to daycare.
 
^^ this is definitely how it works, UNLESS they have a morning-only/afternoon-only etc program, where they are offsetting the other time with other kids.
For both our kids, we did an in-home deal first, then switched to a more conventional preschool when they were old enough. IMO this worked the best bc they got good attention and love when young and good social skills when needed. In both cases the in-home care lady's became like an extended family member, they are still happy to see the kids on FB etc even 12 years later in my son's case.

Is this an official business? Biggest downside to informal/"under the table" daycare is that you can't deduct it from your taxes/use childcare flex spending accounts. That in itself can be a 20% difference in cost depending on your situation.
 
We have our 2yo in a home day care. It's great especially compared to the daycares we visited. If it's a legit licensed home daycare they can't take more than 5 or 6 kids at a time. So less germs going around. I can't think of any negatives of a home daycare as long as you and your kids like the person running it.



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Home daycares have better caregiver:child ratio than the mass groups at a conventional daycare, if that’s important to you.


And germs. They will get sick all the time. Then you. You will get sick all the time as well. :D
 
rockcity said:
Home daycares have better caregiver:child ratio than the mass groups at a conventional daycare, if that’s important to you.


And germs. They will get sick all the time. Then you. You will get sick all the time as well. :D
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Ain't no joke. My 1 kid stays at home with my first wife and some weeks his only interaction is the nursery at church, yet I still get sick almost every Tuesday.
 
rockcity said:
And germs. They will get sick all the time. Then you. You will get sick all the time as well. :D
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Xwhatever.... but they are going to be exposed to those germs at some point, so might as well be when it doesn't matter how many days they miss.
 
Haha. When we were in college, Rachael worked at the campus daycare. Then after graduation she taught 6th grade. She developed a hell of an immune system. I on the other hand got everything 2nd hand. Luckily by the time our kids came around, we were already invulnerable.
 
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